Pencil-sharpener.



No. 849,821. PATENTED APR. 9,1907;

J, I. VAUTIER. PENCIL SHARPE'NER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24, 1907.

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PENClL-SHARPENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 9, 1907.

. Application filed January 24, 1907. Serial No. 353,823.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN JAuEs VAUTIER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PencilSharpeners, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of my improved sharpener. Fig. 2 is a detail side elevation takenin section along the line 2 2 shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3. is a front viewof a detail shown in Fig. 2.

Similar letters desi nate similar parts throughout the several 'gures.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for holding pencilswhile being sharpened, and has for its object, among other things, theprovision of means whereby such pencils may be held in place during thesharpening process, and, besides, the position of the point of thepencil may be raised or low. ered relatively to the plane through whichthe knife-edge passes in sharpening the pencil, to the end that theangle or degree of fineness of the lead point obtained by the use of mysharpener may be varied as desired.

A is a plate formed of suitably-shaped metal cut and folded over at oneend, as shown in Fig. 1. It is provided with a longitudinal slot oropening B and also with a circular hole C of suitable size to admit thepencil cut in the folded-over end of the plate A, as shown in Fig. 1. Atthe farther endof the slot B, and preferably integral with the plate A,is the pencil-p oint-holding member D bent circularly below the plane ofthe slot B, movable within said slot, and provided at its extremity witha semicircular recess (1, adapted to support between its jaws c and fthe point of the pencil during the sharpening process.

D may from its construction be set so as to insure the presentation ofthe central longitudinal axis of the pencil and its point at a varietyof angles relatively to theplane of the surface of plate A, over whichthe knife-edge passes during sharpening, whereby, as will be obvious, amore or less blunt or attenuated point may be secured as desired. D maybe resilient, so that the desired angle may be imparted and variedduring sharpening by merely exerting more or less pressure upon thepencil.

The clamppiece H is a prolongationof the folded-over end of the plate A,as shown in Fig. 1, and is so formed and bent as to contact with itsupper surface the lower surface of the top of a table or desk, so as tohold firmly in place my improved sharpener when a forward pressure isexerted after the pencil is inserted into my device.

The plate A may be prolonged in a tapered form, such as is shown in Fig.1, by the part P so as to combine a paper-cutter with mypencil-sharpener; but of course it is to be understood that thispaper-cutter attachment constitutes no part of my invention.

The operation of my pencil-sharpener is as follows: The device isslipped over the horizontal edge of a desk or table, so that the edge ofsaid desk is held between A and the clamppiece H. The pencil is theninserted through the hole C and pushed forward until the point rests inand is supported by the recess (Z of the member D. The knife is thenpushed forward along the face of the plate A with its edge in contactwith latter and removes a portion of the pencil. The pencil is then partially rotated-and another shaving is removed, and so on until theoperation is finished. It will be observed that by exerting a downwardas well as a forward pressure upon the point of the pencil it may when Dis sufiiciently movable and resilient be lowered relatively to the faceof the plate A and that by such change in the relative position of thepencilpoint the fineness of the sharpened lead point may be regulated asdesired; also, tendency to breakage diminished.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is the following, viz:

1. A pencil-sharpener consisting of a sheetmetal plate provided with alongitudinal slot, and having a folded-over end provided with a hole cuttherein, and a pencil-point-holding member movable relatively to saidslot, substantially as described.

2. A pencil-sharpener consisting of a sheetmetal plate provided with alongitudinal slot and having a folded-over end provided with a circularhole cut therein, and a resilient pensaid plate and integral therewith,and a resilicil-point-holding member yieldingly movable entpencil-point-holding member integral 10 within said slot, substantiallyas described. with said plate and yieldingly movable within 3. Apencil-sharpener consisting of a sheetsaid slot substantially asdescribed. metal plate provided with a longitudinal slot JOHN J.VAUTIER. and having a folded-over end integral with Witnesses: a saidplate and provided with a circular hole PHILIP 0. Hum, cut therein, aclamp-piece beneath the face of GEORGE G. MEASURES.

